You Can't Cheat an Honest Man(1939)

Name: You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Director: Edward F. Cline
Released: 1939-02-17
Rating: 6.8
Cast: W.C. Fields, Edgar Bergen, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Constance Moore, John Arledge

02/17/1939 (US)Comedy1h 16m

6.8

"AT LAST YOU CAN SEE THESE FAMOUS FEUDSTERS CLASH ON THE SCREEN!"

Overview

Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.

Everett Freeman

Screenplay

Edward F. Cline

Director

Richard Mack

Screenplay

George Marion Jr.

Screenplay

George Marshall

Director

W.C. Fields

Story